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Tactfully ask users for their work email

by yuvalkarmi on 10/30/22, 12:56 AM with 5 comments

• by nullish_signal on 10/30/22, 4:12 AM

  Keeping your work emails private is a good way to reduce the chances of a scam, you can do this by limiting what sites you use your work email to for.

  Another solution is to create a secondary, anonymous email that you can use to sign up to any suspicious sites with, or as an alternate account for gaming and social media, this will lower the chances of your work email being compromised.

• by groffee on 10/30/22, 1:42 AM

  You can't seriously think this is something you can sell? lmao

• by yuvalkarmi on 10/30/22, 12:56 AM

  Hey HN community! I'm Yuval, the founder of WorkPuppy - a tool that helps SaaS companies ask users for their work emails (once they have a good reason to give it to us).

  At my previous startup, Simpo, I asked my team to outright block registrations with personal email addresses, fearing that those users were just "not serious."

  It was a mistake.

  Sometimes users sign up with a personal or secondary email address because they want to check a product out before giving away their important contact info.

  Rather than preventing personal email registrations, I now believe that as B2B SaaS founders, we should absolutely allow users to "kick the tires" of a product (with whatever info they want to give us), and then tactfully ask for their info when they've seen value in the product and want to stay in touch.

  There's an interactive demo on the main site (courtesy of the good folks at Arcade), so you can play with it, and I'd be delighted to talk to anyone individually who's interested in having a conversation.

  Can't wait to hear what you all think and to chat – I love this place :)